Cade Roux

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

Must read: xAI is poisoning Mississippi, captured via thermal imaging.

Beautiful color illustration book cover, details at this URL: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517920012/the-luminous-fairies-and-mothra/

Our local academic publishing house has a treat for everyone:
"The story that hatched Mothra—available in English for the first time, translated by Jeffrey Angles, who wrote an afterword about the novella’s cultural context, the unusual story of its composition, and the development of the 1961 film"

Pete Hegseth Blew Billions on Fruit Basket Stands, Chairs, and Crab The Defense Department went on a $93 billion spending spree in 2025.

Yeah Pete sucks and this story is astonishing but once again I gotta shout out the photo editor here for doing the work. An excellent choice that really tells the story.
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THIS IS SPINAL TAP was released 42 years ago this week. Widely regarded as one of the funniest comedies ever made, and the film that spawned the ‘mockumentary’, the behind the scenes tale goes to 11…

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Don't threaten me with the comparatively wonderful fucking time we would be having in the Hilary Clinton or Kamala Harris timelines.

Dawn Kurtagich: Submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of the madness
Kurtagich: it's about a fantasy that turned to madness (Has turned to madness)
Kurtagich: And all my goodness (And all my goodness)
Kurtagich: has turned to badness (Has turned to badness)

Since we are experimenting with in-house public works, how about we go ahead and bring trash in house and save the profit margin we are paying to the trash companies. Then if you still need to raise the fees, at least you are investing in our City capabilities instead of some company's profits.

Race to the bottom. If a machine wrote it, wouldn't we just have a machine read it, and then, if so, why write it in the first place. Value goes rapidly to zero.

Figurines of Brady Bunch and Partridge Family fighting each other

I have created a diorama of the Partridge family attacking the Brady Bunch family. My life is very boring.

Exactly, and why are they taking gains completely out of those investments?

A.I, overwhelmingly is for anime porn and Facebook boomer posts. We don’t have real data on how much it’s used but we do have real data on how cool it’s users *are* which is not very

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_The_ Ohio State University President.

I figured it out. Water pressure at 3AM is too high and the pipes can't handle it. So if we all run a spaghetti thin stream of water from the tap, everything will be fine.

Dayumm

Capybaras eating vegetation on the bank.

These guys are accounted for.

Bronze sculpture of child testing the water with his toe at the hyams gountain.

Upper level of the Hyams fountain with bronze woman and children. Inscription reads "Given to the little children of New Orleans by Sara Lavinia Hyams MCMXIV"

One of my favorite New Orleans water features (the big version in Audubon)

Another day, another unexpected school closure due to failing infrastructure that we've been talking about for at least two decades. #DepartmentOfWaterMains

If so, this does not end well for her.

me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58

Here's the Karoline Leavitt interview people are talking about.

Maria Bartiromo asks if Trump might send ground troops into Iran, because "mothers are worried" about a draft. Leavitt replies that ground troops aren't in the current plan, but Trump won't rule them out. No mention of the draft.

I’m just gonna say we’re getting to his pain point.

Is there a Topo Chico shortage? I been to Costco Roberts and rouses and none of em have it. Ima check Ideal cause I assume they got it but damn

“The Women’s Issue” of Bakersfield Life magazine with two cover models who are old white dudes in suites.

Happy International Women’s Day!

J.G. BALLARD APOLOGY FORM To: From: Date: Reason for behavior: The media convinced me that the ultra-rich were normal human beings I didn't know that life and death are actual games for our drug-addled elites I miss consensus reality I don't know anything about UK sf I was jealous Mercury was in of him for retrograde hanging out with Michael Moorcock I will hereby respect the dystopian G.O.A.T. and I will NOT talk down on the future first-ballot Hall of Famer. imgflip.com

Reading the news today

Two of my faves, I need to find this episode. Also need to rewatch The Prisoner.

There are a lot of posts out there with the close-up visual of Markwayne Mullin on January 6, but this is a better perspective.

He’s not protecting others; he’s protecting himself and hiding. You can see plenty of people at the entry door, ready to take on the insurrectionists, but not Markwayne.